Answer Content and Tone questions below:

  • the reason that they were there was to honor the dead, not to dwell on the fact that most of their men had died but to honor the lives that had fought for the war

The audience needed strength and comfort and reassurance not facts or statistics of how many people died because the audience was made up of generals and those that new the facts of the war already

The tone was powerful and uplifting and, courageous, strength and hopeful.